The Danzig Cemetery is on the
Northwest quarter of section 18, Township 12, Range 4, West of the 3rd
Meridian, approximately three miles east of Waldheim. The cemetery containing
13 graves is all that is left to witness the once busy, thriving, farmyard
and homestead where the Gerhard Ens family, along with parents Kornelius
and Anna Ens, settled at the turn of the century.

Due to numerous factors, including
the Depression, nothing was ever done to permanently mark the graves.
When the land was sold and buildings and yard disappeared, the cemetery
was left unguarded. There was no fence; there wasn't a single tombstone
or marker of any kind and in recent years the graves were hardly discernible.
Church records held by Bishop Toews of Rosthern were destroyed in a fire
many years ago.

"This generation must do something
to preserve the site," said Orval Ens. "An unknowing hired hand or a new
landowner might easily break up the plot by mistake."

After much correspondence with
Land Titles, church, Vital Statistics, RM, archivists, MLA, etc., a committee
of relatives and neighbors decided to take action. In order to locate
each grave the RM of Rosthern patrol (grader) was hired to shave the top
soil. The back fill of clay is a different colour so that the graves showed
up very clearly.

After this, it was possible
to cap each grave with a pad of concrete. Steel posts imbedded in concrete
and joined by steel cable now mark the perimeter of the actual grave site.
Since there are no records distinguishing one grave from another, the
group placed a bronze plaque listing the names of all those known to be
interred in this cemetery.

The original title, held by
Rosenort Mennonite Church, did not provide for legal access to the site.
However, after negotiations with Saskatchewan Community Planning and a
trade of land for land with the owner of the quarter section, satisfactory
arrangements were made. The Eigenheim Mennonite Church (administrators
of the cemetery activities) withdrew from the Rosenort branch of the Mennonite
Church in 1929. It was necessary to register the new title with a current
active organization. This too was accomplished when the Rural Municipality
of Rosthern agreed to hold this title.